Persecution of the Jews and Muslims of Portugal

François Soyer, Ph.D. (2006) in History, University of Cambridge, is a visiting Research Fellow at the University of Evora. He has published on religious minorities and the Inquisition in Medieval and Early Modern Spain and Portugal.

• AcknowledgementsNotes for Readers: Names, Dates and Currency AbbreviationsList of PlatesIntroduction1: The Jewish and Muslim Minorities in Medieval Portugal2: Castilian Conversos and Jews in Portugal c.1480-c.14953: The Death of João II and the Accession of Manuel I4: The “General Conversion” of the Jews and Renewal of the “Converso Problem”5: The Expulsion of the Muslims from Portugal: the Forgotten PersecutionConclusionBibliographyIndex

"a thoroughly researched work that makes use of a variety of sources in several languages, including Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese. I found it generally persuasive and certainly an important contribution to the fields of Portuguese, Jewish and Islamic history", Ariel Hessayon review in Reviews in History (review no. 797), URL: http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/hessayona.html